🚨 "ANTISEMITISM" HIT ITS ALL-TIME HIGH IN PRINT. THEN THEY CHANGED THE RULER THEY MEASURE IT WITH.
Google Books, 1990: 1.88 uses per million words.
2022: 3.41.
Record.
Now watch the definition.
2005. Written as a guide for European data collectors.
2016. IHRA adopts it with 11 examples.
7 of the 11 are about Israel.
A country. Not a people.
Dec 2019. Executive Order 13899 wires it into federal civil rights enforcement.
Oct 2023. ADL starts counting protest slogans as antisemitic incidents.
That one rule change added roughly 1,350 incidents to a single year.
May 2024. The House votes 320-91 to write IHRA into Title VI.
Jan 2025. EO 14188 adds visas and deportation to the toolbox.
1,334 governments, schools and organizations have now adopted it.
The man who wrote the first draft, Kenneth Stern, told the Senate it is being weaponized against speech.
(He wrote it.)
Wider net. More fish.
Now the part both sides skip.
The FBI does not use IHRA. It still logged a record 1,938 anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2024.
Real hate went up.
The definition got wider.
Both things are true. Only one of them makes the headline.
So the next time you see "record antisemitism," ask one question.
Record by whose ruler?
Full breakdown on my page. 👇
The word got bigger.
The rulebook got bigger.
The receipts stayed the same size.
Lobbying should be illegal. Follow the money. Facts Over Feelings. Receipts Over Narratives.